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Colorado Parks and Wildlife officials are asking visitors to John Martin, Adobe Creek and Nee Gronda reservoirs for help in protecting two rare shorebirds.
As in previous years, parks and wildlife managers will be closing access to some shoreline areas to protect the nests of least terns and piping plovers. The closures, which may be several acres in size, will run from early April through mid-August.
Colorado and the federal government have designated the least tern as an endangered species. The piping plover is listed as a threatened species by the state of Colorado and under the federal Endangered Species Act.
